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Published: 2016-03-28 13:22:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 21112; Favourites: 264; Downloads: 99
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so... as my demented mind pondered where exactly nick got that rug he gave to mr. big i thought to myself... its a skunk... that means he had to get it from a skunk... skinned the poor fella and all. the guy must have owed nick a whole lot of money or owed someone that nick was working for. i also think he didnt have to skin the whole skunk maybe just the part from the poor fella's butt. just to remind him to never miss a payment to nick or the family or whatever.Βanyways... dont worry kids the skunk isnt going to get skinned alive. just a small part... just enough for a gerbil sized rug. This was done way before he ever met Judy... he's a good guy now.Β
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Byron Howard said it came from naturally shed skunk fur... Well scaring a skunk with a scalpel will do the trick, though I'd probably piss myself first lol
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Oh I Know What It Is... Ouch Painful!!
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So, um.... do we still believe this is true?
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Dark and pyschotic Nick?!
Someone write a fanfiction about it.
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The dexter Morgan of z
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Keep spooking the fella and he'll shed you a whole carpet real quick
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1)This is a bit unlike Nick's personality.
Nick is more of the snarky, sly yet charming trickster/entrepreneur type, not a psychopath.
2)Byron Howard (the director of the movie himself) once tweeted this:
twitter.com/ByronPHoward/statuβ¦
Which probably means that Nick never had to shave the skunk's butt, but the fur was "naturally shed" by the skunk. Nick probably just stole the discarded fur to eventually sew it into a rug and then sold it to Mr. Big, falsely claiming that it's an expensive wool rug (not a good thing obviously).
So maybe this never happened.....
This is not to criticize the fanart in any way. I just find the theory, a bit flawed.
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I'm more of the opinion that Nick heard Mr. Big wanted a panda fur rug and took the initiative to get one as a surprise, but he accidentally sent the package containing the skunk butt rug to Mr. Big instead, as Nick's clearly ashamed of what happened and, as we see in the movie, isn't the type of guy to do something like that to people he considers real friends. The skunk butt rug was probably meant for someone else, just another hustle, and Nick was able to go back and explain what really happened to Mr. Big after Judy got him back in The Family's good graces, as he wouldn't have had the chance initially because of how angry Mr. Big was at Nick for the perceived insult.Β
Just one more thing about Nick's life made better that he owes Judy for.Β
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Also it was never mentioned in the movie that anyone ever owed any money to Nick.
I'm pretty sure he never had any sort of power over anyone in the first place.Β
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Not disagreeing with you here, but the thought has also crossed my mind that Nick might at least have been involved in the murder of a skunk if not the killer himself. But considering his overall moral alignment, yeah, it's far-fetched. In any case, I like to think that this concept is a reference to The Merchant of Venice, where Shylock demands "a pound of flesh" from someone who owes him money.
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The skunk was never murdered actually. The director states that the fur was naturally shed, so no murder.
Also remember when Nick says, "If the world's only gonna see a fox as shifty and untrustworthy, then there is no point in trying to be anyone else."
By this he probably meant that Nick did neither anything better nor worse than being a con artist.
This is why his character alignment is "Chaotic Neutral (not Evil).
I wouldn't really think of Nick as a psychotic skinner after this
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Jesus, the origins of the rug just always seems to scare me.
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He's just going to shave some fur, is all.
After all, as he said to Judy, it was a rug "made from the fur of a skunk's butt".
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I hope I'm right.
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Or you know he can do it without any cruelty...Β
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Wow Nick, what are you the Joker? This seems like something The Joker would do
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"I'm not gonna kill you, I'm just gonna hurt you. Really, really, bad."
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It's just business. Nothing personal.
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*Finally gets this too*
That did poke at me during that scene. How you get a skunk's butt for a rug, in a world where all mammals are sentient beings with rights? Why would any creature accept a rug made from organic stuff like that?
Either way, this is a fun addition to that 
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Kinda reminds me of something from the Horror Game Layers of Fear
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Jesus Christ, in what ways are you reminded of it by this?
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The fact that it came from someone that's alive
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And what exactly came from that living thing?
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The Canvas is pig skin in the game
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Well, this otherwise just proves this fan art is unnecessarily horrid and unrealistically stupid.Β
Besides that though, Nick didn't take the skin, it was the fur instead.
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If you have a skewed/different viewpoint and you want to follow it, that's fine...
Not here to argue really...
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Umm...yes.Β
It will be highly bothersome to think of as a headcanon for what happened especially with the baselessness and inconsistency (and seeing that there are much better theories).
How is it outrageously stupid as well:
1. Why would Nick lend him the money in the first place (esp if we are showing that he likes it *this* much)? It is actually quite well noted that he has trust issues with others, especially given how his childhood went.
2. Why would he consider skinning a skunk's butt for not paying the debts, instead of just getting the money from him? O supposedly to scare him? I suppose the skunk can tell on the cops after this, then the cops will be after him surely (no matter how he may try to run away).
There is nothing to prove this can be in-character anyway so...
These are my thoughts (at least), along with a few others I already left here.
Nevertheless tho, umm...iz just horror jokez maybe lol.
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Maybe nick needed the rug to make some money
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And...there are plenty of *OTHER* ways he could have got it (that people have discussed), probably without even him himself having to be near the skunk...
Skinning a skunk itself is what I'm saying is stupid. He doesn't need the rug for money...he just got one and thought to sell it (even as shown here)...
There are also *plenty* of better ways to make money that Nick knows about...
I mean, this is not even a good/convincing argument you are presenting...and I'm not in the mood, so no need to argue.
You probably just want to believe in this...and I know no *good* reason why...but if that is the case, then whatever...
I'm just saying, I wouldn't want to think it a headcanon (with the reasons I gave).
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Well nick told Judy that he sold the rug for a very high price
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And that doesn't invalidate any of my points as to how he got it.
All we know is that he sold it as an "expensive wool rug", that's why the high price for it. How he got it? We were never told.
These are really not convincing reasons. If you want to believe this (fsr), I can't tell you no. We believe some things due to conviction and not necessarily any reasoning. And that's fine...I think.
But that doesn't disprove me thinking that it is baseless/illogical, macabre and not what I would like to be a headcanon.Β
And, you can think whatever you want. So arguments are done.
You may or may not know that it is said Nick has a heart of gold (kindness and good nature) underneath the prickly persona he projects. Now whether you think he'd still be doing something like *this* depends on your viewpoint on morality.
Besides that as well, we never actually see him committing any violence of such sorts (and his connections with the group is ambiguous as best, so not a good reason).
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You hooked me into the game because of your comment!
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Its OST left me speechless.
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I want to get Layers of Fear. the other games I would like to have are Doom 4 and Sims 4
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I have Doom yet it left me with mixed thoughts.
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which one? The Classic or the Reboot?
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The most recent one.
The story felt weak.
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The controller feels good, the graphics look nice, yet the story is what left me with mixed thoughts.
Looking back, the one Doom that I truly liked was the third one, amazing from start to finish indeed.
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my Favorite Sci-Fi Horror Game is Dead SpaceΒ
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